Bachelor of Data Science

With market information and technology evolving at great speed, skilled professionals are needed to transform data into actionable insights for business.

The Bachelor of Data Science is designed to meet this demand, equipping you with high-level understanding of predictive models and the related technology. Throughout your study, you will learn how to wrangle, analyse, visualise, predict, and find insights into data to solve a host of real-world problems.

You will gain targeted expertise in:

• mathematics and statistics
• exploratory data analysis
• machine learning
• regression
• classification
• clustering techniques
• text analytics
• image and speech processing.

Victoria University degrees are internationally recognised and help you find a satisfying career within and outside Australia.

The Bachelor of Data Science course is designed to meet industry demand and prepare you to pursue careers in the following roles:

• data scientist
• data analyst
• business analyst
• market research analyst
• machine learning engineer
• machine learning scientist
• statistician
• business intelligence (BI) specialist.

Graduates can be employed across a broad range of professional sectors, such as:

• banking and finance
• telecommunications
• retail
• government
• planetary health research and applications.

To attain the award of Bachelor of Data Science students will be required to complete

• 288 credit points of core units.

Use our credit calculator to find out how much credit you could get towards your course, based on your previous study.

If you have completed study with another university or institution and believe you are eligible to receive credit for skills and past study, you can apply for advanced standing.

Applications for advanced standing can be made after a discussion with your course chair or academic adviser.

Before applying, you should consider whether you also want to apply for:

• Special admission programs: Depending on your life circumstances you may be eligible for special consideration of your application.
• Advanced standing: If you have significant experience or studies elsewhere you may be eligible for credit for some units of your course and not have to undertake them.

Find out more about applying for our courses.